Work on the model I started in January 2001 and ended in April 2001. Elapsed time is 480 hours. All items are hands made of precious woods; linden, oak, pear, apple and walnut. The guns made of bronze. Scale this model is 1:75. Dimensions: 450-460-250 mm.

«Nina» (Spanish: La Niña, «Girl" ) - a Spanish caravel, one of three ships in which Christopher Columbus embarked on his first expedition to the ocean and discovered America in 1492. This title «Nina» - «Santa Klara». The name «Nina», probably derived from the name of its owners, brothers Nino from Moger.

Other ships in the Columbus expedition were the caravel «Pinta» karakka and the «Santa Maria».

Initially, the «Nina» Latin was the sail and rigging, "the Latin caravel," but in the Azores, she was re-equipped in the "caravel Redonda" direct sail for better movement across the ocean. Authentic documents with parameters «Nina» left. It is believed that the ship had three masts, but there is the view that there were four.

In the first expedition of Columbus «Nina» was carrying 24 people, and was managed by Vicente Pinzón Jansen. The ships left Palos de la Frontera, August 3, 1492, and making a stopover in the Canary Islands, and went further west. The landing on the ground occurred October 12, 1492 in the Bahamas. After the «Santa Maria» sat on the reef, Columbus moved to «Nina» (early 1493). February 14 at the east of the Azores storm threatened to turn the «Nina», which is why the insistence of Columbus, he and his team have vowed to do some things on his return home, among which was a commitment to make a pilgrimage. «Nina» reached Lisbon, Portugal, March 4, and Palos de la Frontera - 15 March. In his first trip to America Team «Nina» slept on the deck, but was sleeping in hammocks, sleeping in when he saw them Americans.

«Nina» became a large fleet of 17 ships in the second trip to Haiti and became the leader at the opening of Cuba. Became the sole survivor of a ship in a hurricane in 1495, and then quickly returned to Spain in 1496.

Then «Nina» was chartered for the banned travel to Rome. She was captured by pirates, when the left port of Cagliari and then assigned to Cape Pula in Sardinia. Captain Alonso Medel was able to escape with a few people. He stole a boat and got her to «Nina» and was able to go to Cadiz.

In 1498 «Nina» returned to Haiti as the vanguard of the third voyage of Columbus. She was laid up in Santo Domingo in 1500 In 1501 she made a trading voyage to the Pearl Coast, after which its traces are lost.